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BEAN, WILLIAM, son of --- Bean, Camberwell Green, Surrey, apothecary; b.; adm. 1 Feb 1788; a boy of great promise, but with “no connections acquainted with the school”; stood out as a Min. Can. alone and without the assistance of a help (Southey, Life and Correspondence, 1849, i, 154-7); adopted medical profession; entered Army Medical Department as Surgeon’s Mate 25 May 1795; one of Dr. George Pinckard’s “most useful assistants” in Demerara during Sir Ralph Abercromby’s expedition (Pinckard, Notes on the West Indies, 1806, iii, 130); Assistant Surgeon, 76th Foot 2 Aug 1797, 22nd Foot 1 Jan 1807, 24th Light Dragoons 3 Oct 1807; Surgeon, 78th Foot 24 Apr 1811, 56th Foot 11 Apr 1812; murdered c. 13 Apr 1813, aged 39, by some of the crew of the Asia, in the boats of that ship after she had foundered on her way from Java to Bombay. [father presumably Fowler Bean, Camberwell, Surrey, surgeon, will proved PCC 5 Apr 1810]
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.